Title:
Facing pages [62-63]
Date:
18640302-18640303
Transcription
Nothing [unusual]. Mother, How sweet the (...) in (...) years of a mother tends (...) my, (...) were well (...) to a mother
this duty should be [confided] if it were only for the (...) (...) of (...) on it often many long years of (...) (...) with
the cold (...) of [life] Who is there (...) finds no relief (...) to the scenes of his (...) and youth gilded with the memory
of a mothers love, and how many have (...)
Nothing unusual. A writer beautifully remarks (...) a man's Mother is the representative of his Maker. Misfortune and even
crime set up no barriers between her and her Son. While his Mother lives, he will have one friend on earth who will not listen
when he is slandered, who will not desert him when he suffers who will sooth him in his sorrows and speak to him of hope when
he is really to dispair. Her affection flows from a (...) fountain and causes (...) at the (...) of eternity.
Language:
English
From:
Henry O. Nightingale diary, 1864
Contributing Institution:
UC Merced Library and Special Collections